Over the week of April 7th to April 11th,

the Omega Zeta chapter of Chi Phi hosted it’s first

ever Chi Phi Gone MADD week. This was our week

long philanthropy including a car smash, a “penny

Chi Ph i Gone MADD

In this issue:

Chi Phi Gone

MADD

1

Accreditation 1

Academics 2

Next Semester 2

Accred itat ion

The brothers of the

Omega Zeta Chapter of Chi Phi

Omega Zeta Chapter July 9, 2014

Brothers posing on top of what was left from our car

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war,” and a talent/comedy show

called Chi Phactor.

We received

participation from all five

sororities on campus and we

were able to raise over two

thousand dollars to donate to

MADD, Mothers Against Drunk

Driving.

Chi Phactor, our

largest event of the week, was a

talent and comedy show put on

and hosted by brothers. The

head of the Office of Fraternity

and Sorority Life was in

attendance, as well as some of

the women from MADD’s

Jacksonville office. We received

praise from all of our VIP guests,

especially from our partners

from MADD, whom were very

impressed. The show was then ended with a special

performance from two of our brothers, Brother

Publicover and Brother Butler.

Overall, our philanthropy week was a

success, and marked our first successful philanthropy

week in years.

are proud to announce that our

chapter has become Accredited

with Distinction for the Spring

2014 semester. After going three

semesters without being

accredited, our chapter has been

placed within the top 10% of all

Chi Phi Chapters nationwide.

Special recognition should be

given to Brother Publicover and

Brother Anderson, who really

dedicated themselves to our

accreditation report. Without

them, this wouldn’t have been

possible.

During the Fall Semester, the

Omega Zeta Chapter of Chi Phi held the

lowest average GPA of all UNF fraternities.

We are pleased to announce, however, that

after just one semester, we went from dead

last to first place among fraternities on

campus. We made an average semester GPA

of 3.00 and we brought our cumulative GPA

up to a 2.99, With a 3.00, we matched the

All Panhellenic Council GPA and outscored

the All Undergraduate Semester GPA, the

All Men’s Average GPA, the All Inter-

Fraternity Council GPA, and several others.

This accomplishment saved our

chapter from going onto academic probation,

and will help us to claim a top tier spot on

campus. This wouldn’t have been possible,

however, without our internal focus on

Academics

academics this past semester. We

encouraged all brothers to log library hours,

study together, go to every class, and to not

let our GPA’s drop under any condition.

What we saw however, was not brothers

being forced to do these things, but all of our

brothers actively working together to

correct this embarrassing, and possibly

threatening, problem.

We all pulled together and

buckled down on our work, and our GPA

reflects that. Our academic plan for the Fall

semester will be even stricter than that of

our Spring semester to ensure that we keep

our GPA up, and to remain at the top of the

academic ranks.

Spring Semester

Accomplishments

UNF Lip Sync champions

Delta Gamma Anchor Splash

champions

Alpha Chi Omega Dodging

Domestic Violence week champions

Kappa Alpha Theta Cupcake

Wars champions

Kappa Alpha Theta Banner

Contest champions

Kappa Alpha Theta Mr. CAS-

Anova week champions

Zeta Tau Alpha King of the

Court Next Semester

After our successes in the Spring Semester, the brothers of the Omega Zeta Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity want to

make sure we keep our success alive. Therefore, we have set forth a number of goals for the Fall Semester. Our main focus in the

spring was internal, and therefore we are planning on switching to an external focus in the fall. We are planning on keeping a large

focus on academics, however. Our goals for the Fall semester are simple. We plan on holding more brother and alumni activities,

because we know that nothing we do would be possible without support from our alumni. Also, we want to have at least one date

function, shoot for a twenty-member rush class, and we want to participate more in on campus events, such as the basketball tailgates.

On the serious side of things, we are looking to have zero GPA’s under 2.5 and to get our overall GPA within the top three Greek

organizations on campus. Also, we are looking to get all of our dues in as early as possible, develop an organized calendar of events

early in the semester, and to work on leadership development within the chapter. We are hoping that the Fall Semester will bring just

as much, if not more, success as the spring.